Dennis Ray Matthews, Appellant v. State of Arkansas, Appellee

Summary

The court affirmed the denial of Matthews’s petition for a writ of error coram nobis. It held that his unsupported claims of incompetence and coercion did not establish a fundamental error warranting relief, that his ineffective-assistance allegations were not cognizable in a coram-nobis proceeding, and that he failed to act with due diligence after a thirty-five-year delay. The court also declined to consider factual material raised for the first time on appeal.